# Joe Bologna has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bologna-has-died/793634 "2017-08-14T15:16:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bologna-has-died/793634/1 "2017-08-14T15:16:44Z")
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joseph-bologna-my-favorite-year-actor-dies-at-82\_us\_59918a3be4b0909642984ab8?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joseph-bologna-my-favorite-year-actor-dies-at-82_us_59918a3be4b0909642984ab8?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009) > [@](#): > > LOS ANGELES ([Variety.com](http://Variety.com)) ― Joseph Bologna, an actor, writer, and director known for his role in 1982’s “My Favorite Year” and for his long collaboration on stage and screen with wife Renée Taylor, has died after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 82. > > Bologna died Sunday morning at City of Hope in Duarte, California. Just last month, Bologna attended a 35th anniversary screening of “My Favorite Year” in Los Angeles. Bologna played the explosive TV star King Kaiser in the backstage comedy inspired by Mel Brooks’ experiences as a young TV writer on Sid Caesar’s legendary “Your Show of Shows.” > > Taylor said Bologna had “a beautiful life and a beautiful death.” Bologna died just two days after the couple celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary. For some reason, the movie I remember him from is 1973’s **Cops and Robbers**. It seemed as if I saw the trailer for it a zillion times. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bologna-has-died/793634/2 "2017-08-14T15:25:43Z")
_Cops and Robbers_ is one of my favorite heist movies; hopefully someday they’ll release a widescreen version (like it was originally shown in theaters). And _My Favorite Year_ is just a masterful comedy, a perfect 10/10 movie. RIP Mr. Bologna; thanks for everything. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bologna-has-died/793634/3 "2017-08-14T15:31:19Z")
I loved “Top of the Heap.” All 6 episodes (plus, the pilot from, “Married With Children.”). ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bologna-has-died/793634/4 "2017-08-14T19:07:23Z")
I loved him in **Blame It On Rio**. ::cars pass them on their way to a beach wedding:: “Can we go see the wedding Daddy?” “We’ll wait and catch the divorce.” ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bologna-has-died/793634/5 "2017-08-15T05:03:24Z")
I remember him from a fairly obscure little TV show in the 1980s called _Rags to Riches_, about a businessman who takes in a group of orphans to boost his image but, naturally, decides he really cares about them. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bologna-has-died/793634/6 "2017-08-15T21:52:35Z")
Obligatory IMDb [link](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004767/). Usually when obits mention a specific role over and over it’s because the actor was a one-hit wonder or they’re ignoring a lot of other quality work. It’s sort of like the latter here, but not all that much. He had a lot of other good stuff. But _My Favorite Year_ just stands out so far in greatness you _have_ to talk about it. Plus _Blame It On Rio_ (with Serious Actor\* Michael Caine) and the other _Jersey Girl_ movie. - TM applied for.